Josie Adams is a staff writer at The Spinoff. Email her on josie@thespinoff.co.nz
The Beths hosted a very personal, very cool live streamed concert. Here's more people who are doing the same.
The new conspiracy buzzword is adrenochrome. It's a drug with a literary history, not a scientific one. We explain what we can.
Medical centres across the country are condensing services, moving online, and ushering in pandemic plans. Josie Adams assesses what it’s like to access and provide essential medical care under alert level four.
One way to pass time, which we suddenly have a lot of, is gardening. But where can you get seeds? And what do you plant in autumn?
It's been 10 years since the release of Dane Rumble’s solo album The Experiment. Josie Adams looks back on why New Zealand fell so hard and fast. At The Experiment’s launch, …
Dua Lipa’s new album, Future Nostalgia, is an ode to good memories and a gateway to Zumba. Josie Adams listened to it and took a heady trip into her past.
The effect of Covid-19 on NZ music won’t be short-lived. Here’s how some members of the industry are coping.
The government says tourists could be deported if they fail to self-isolate. One problem: there aren't many places they can do so.
For those of us not in self-isolation, social distancing is one of the ways we can stop the spread of Covid-19. This is how to do it.
Justin McLeod has invented Hinge twice: once for smartphones, and once more for romantics. He spoke to Josie Adams about why being open to change is the best path to true love.
In light of Covid-19's new pandemic status, the Ministry of Health gave an update on New Zealand's status and measures being taken.
A fresh campaign has been launched to get concerts at Eden Park, and Leigh Hart is singing his lungs out.
Volunteering organisations say they shouldn't be tarred with the same brush as voluntourism.
Born and bred in Dunedin, Vanessa Worm talks about how being punk got her signed to one of the world's best club music labels.
The first issue of the Otago student magazine for 2020 had barely hit campus before it was making headlines in the wider media. The cover was censored by Facebook, and …
Marlin’s Dreaming have a new single out ahead of their next, "least accessible" album. Frontman Semisi Maiai sat down to talk about how a bunch of jocks from Dunedin became indie darlings.
Josie Adams looks back at the short-lived 0800 SMOKEY snitch campaign.
E-bikes are now just a tap away! Josie Adams reviews the latest disruption in transport culture.
Despite what some critics claim, there isn’t a 'gig problem' in Auckland, writes Josie Adams. You just need to look beyond indie rock.
Giving off-the-cuff speeches that get everyone talking has become something of a habit for national treasure Taika Waititi.
Crocs aren’t 'back', they’re timeless. Josie Adams writes in defence of the injection-moulded clog that just won’t quit.
For more than two decades, the Graeme Dingle Foundation has helped tens of thousands of young people find joy and direction in life.
Two years after the release of Mac Miller’s Swimming, his family has released its posthumous companion piece, Circles. We explain what it is, how it came together, and why you need to listen to it.
Fishermen and swimmers around the Hauraki Gulf are reporting droves of baby sharks in the waters. What does it mean, and where are their parents?
Hundreds of vicious bushfires have been scorching the country in an unprecedented wave of destruction
ANZ was our most problematic bank, mines were the greatest threat to our environment, and our unions stepped up their mascots. Josie Adams remembers all the major protests of the decade.
